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The Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) is the proposed name for a collaborative bio-encyclopedia, written by experts[1][2], which aims to build an encyclopedia of separate articles for all known species, including video, sound, images, graphics, and text.[3].It will be initially backed by a $50m funding commitment from five major science institutions, led by the MacArthur Foundation. A commodity metal, historically gold and silver, backing money or currency. ...
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is a major private grant-making foundation based in Chicago that has awarded more than US$3 billion since its inception in 1978. ...
The encyclopedia's website holds project information, FAQs,[4] and limited demonstration pages,[5] and is scheduled to offer species information to the public from mid-2008.[6] FAQ is an abbreviation for Frequently Asked Question(s). The term refers to listed questions and answers, all supposed to be frequently asked in some context, and pertaining to a particular topic. ...
2008 (MMVIII) will be a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The US $100 million project's steering committee has senior officers from Biodiversity Heritage Library consortium, Field Museum, Harvard University, MacArthur Foundation, Marine Biological Laboratory, Missouri Botanical Garden, Sloan Foundation, and the Smithsonian Institution.[1][7][8] ISO 4217 Code USD User(s) the United States, the British Indian Ocean Territory,[1] the British Virgin Islands, Cambodia, East Timor, Ecuador, El Salvador, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Palau, Panama, Turks and Caicos Islands, and the insular areas of the United States Inflation 2. ...
Image from Biologia Centrali Americana[1], 1879 The Biodiversity Heritage Library is a consortium of 10 of the worlds leading natural history libraries. ...
Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago The Field Museum of Natural History, in Chicago, Illinois, USA, sits on Lake Shore Drive next to Lake Michigan, part of a scenic complex called known as the Museum Campus which includes Soldier Field, the football stadium that is the home of the Chicago...
Harvard University (incorporated as The President and Fellows of Harvard College) is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Founded in 1636,[2] Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States. ...
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is a major private grant-making foundation based in Chicago that has awarded more than US$3 billion since its inception in 1978. ...
The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a famous scientific institution located in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. ...
Seiwa-en One of the Various Gardens at the Missouri Botanical Garden The Missouri Botanical Garden is a botanical garden located in St. ...
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, a philanthropic nonprofit institution in the United States, was established in 1934 by Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. ...
The Smithsonian Institution Building or Castle on the National Mall serves as the Institutions headquarters. ...
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Information about many species is already available from a variety of sources, in particular about the megafauna. Gathering current available data will take around 10 years.[9] The initiative will rely on established efforts, including the Sp2000 and ITIS Catalogue of Life, Fishbase and the Assembling Tree of Life project of NSF. The initial focus will be on animals and plants, then later fungi and microbes, and finally extinct species. As the discovery of new species is expected to continue at a rapid rate, in particular on the micro scales such as bacteria and viruses, the encyclopedia will grow continuously. The mammoth, an extinct genus of megafauna. ...
Please note that the ITIS system URL has changed (25 September 2006). ...
Catalogue of Life Logo Source [1] The Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life The Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life is planned to become a comprehensive catalogue of all known species of organisms on Earth by the year 2011. ...
FishBase is a comprehensive database of information about fish. ...
The goal of EOL is to be a tool for kids, students, scientists and the public. [10] It will be multi-lingual.[11]
The estimated cost will be 110.5 million dollars [12] United States one-dollar bill Canadian one-dollar coin (Loonie) One New Taiwan dollar Australian one-dollar coin 500 old Zimbabwean dollars The dollar (often represented by the dollar sign: $) is the name of the official currency in several countries, dependencies and other regions. ...
Vision Biologist E. O. Wilson announced a "dream" that someone would fund the project during a TED speaking engagement in March 2007,[13] a yearly forum in which luminary speakers are given the opportunity to ask for a "dream prize". On May 9, 2007 that dream "came true" when five science foundations announced an initial $50 million dollar grant to get the project started.[14] Edward Osborne Wilson (b. ...
TED (Technology Entertainment Design),TED talks, TEDtalks, or TED Global is a forum for revolutionary ideas held annually in Monterey, California and recently in other cities around the world. ...
According to the EOL, Wikipedia played a significant role in the vision to create the Encyclopedia.
Wikipedia inspired us. Wikipedia accumulated about 1.5 million entries in English in its first four years. That gave us confidence that our tasks are manageable with current technology and social behaviour, although the expert community in a lot of the subjects for pages in Encyclopedia of Life may be only a handful of people. Wikipedia has also created some species pages, as have other groups. Encyclopedia of Life will, we hope, unite all such efforts and increase their value. The Wikimedia Foundation is a member of the Encyclopedia’s Institutional Council. [15]
Citations 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the Anno Domini era. ...
May 9 is the 129th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (130th in leap years). ...
2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the Anno Domini era. ...
May 9 is the 129th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (130th in leap years). ...
2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the Anno Domini era. ...
May 9 is the 129th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (130th in leap years). ...
2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the Anno Domini era. ...
May 9 is the 129th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (130th in leap years). ...
2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the Anno Domini era. ...
May 9 is the 129th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (130th in leap years). ...
2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the Anno Domini era. ...
May 9 is the 129th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (130th in leap years). ...
2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the Anno Domini era. ...
May 9 is the 129th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (130th in leap years). ...
2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the Anno Domini era. ...
May 9 is the 129th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (130th in leap years). ...
See also Catalogue of Life Logo Source [1] The Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life The Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life is planned to become a comprehensive catalogue of all known species of organisms on Earth by the year 2011. ...
Wikispecies is a sister project supported by the Wikimedia Foundation that anybody can edit with a great potential use to students and researchers. ...
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